We were unwittingly honeymooning in Budapest during CM2005. We stepped out of a restaurant into 1000s of bikes. I said, let's just stick around until it ends and it DIDN'T. 10s of thousands of bikes, lasted hours.

How very interesting that this Critical Mass appears to have marshals (in the lime-green T-shirts) helping to shepherd the riders through intersections, roundabouts, etc. I think their New York City counterparts would help themselves immensely by adopting the same practice; maybe then the police would not feel compelled to harass them and shove them off of their bikes.

@Carlos: Yes, our Critical Mass events are held with the assistance of hundreds of volunteer "marshals" (around 300 this year), as well as the police. We have two events every year -- the ones in April are organized on roads closed from car traffic, the September ones (held on the European Car Free Day) are not.

Kilometres cycled by Copenhageners so far today

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40 years ago Copenhagen was just as car-clogged as anywhere else but now 41% of the population arriving at work or education do so on bicycles, from all over the Metro area. 55% of Copenhageners themselves use bicycles each day. They all use over 1000 km of bicycle lanes in Greater Copenhagen for their journeys. Copenhagenizing is possible anywhere.